Queens are commonly 'bent' on purpose for lanscaping uses. They are planted in large boxes and then the boxes are dumped on their sides. Several years later the Queen has grown a right angle and is planted, hoping to duplicate the look a of the more tropical Coconut Palm

Queen Palm Flower Stem

Here are some nice trees that are over-pruned, a common situation for all publicly planted palms in So Cal

Here are few more Queen Palms in So Cal

Here's some seed on the ground to show what size color it is (here in Los Angeles)- can be messy

And if you don't clean up the seed, notice the 'lawn' of Queen palms you start to get.

This is one of the tallest Queen Palms I've seen, in Santa Barbara- about 60'

seedling in Southern California, just starting to show split leaves

A very variable species. This one is has 16 foot leaves with 2 foot diameter trunk. Johanessburg ZA.

Queen palm date cluster, Venice, Florida, February 6, 2005

A close-up of the crownshaft. Very widely grown in central and southern FL, USA.

fruiting in southern California showing parts of the woody spathes still covering the infructesences

Saw this palm this week in San Fernando Valley, California- towering over a Washingtonia! At least 50' tall and going strong.

Queen palms ready to be planted.

Older Queen Palms in a breeze. San Diego County

One year old. Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires, Argentina. May 2006 (Autumn)

12 foot Queen Palm

seed off sidewalks in Los Angeles, which is all over the place as these are common street trees... surprised not more common lawsuits from slipping on these squishy fruits

one of the tallest Queen palms I have ever seen, here in front of a 2 and 3 story building, next to a Phoenix canariensis in San Diego